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Commodity illustration: Ginger

Category:Spices and aromatics

Ginger

Standard price
500 pieces of eight per Ton
Surplus
150 pieces of eight
Scarcity
600 pieces of eight

Export regions

Ginger travels as pale, knobbly pieces of dried rhizome, still showing the branching shape of the underground stem. Breaking one reveals its fibres and pungent scent.

Cooks use it as a spice, and apothecaries include it in their preparations. Ginger preserved in sugar is another familiar product, distinct from this dry cargo. Growers in the Indies and the West Indies harvest the rhizomes and prepare them for their intended market, sending a lasting source of aromatic heat to distant kitchens.

Sources and adaptations

References in the Pavillon Noir books:

  • Carnet de Vercourt, p. 524, 527, 528, 529, 533, 534.

The description was written by Ludic RPG. Prices are game values expressed in pieces of eight.